Thursday, July 10, 2014

July 10 - The Lake House

Today’s movie is a fantasy romance with a scene that happens on July 10. I hope you will watch this film tonight and enjoy it.  

THE LAKE HOUSE          
       
In 2006 Dr. Kate Forester moves out of the house she lived in on the lake, leaving a letter for the next the next tenant in the mailbox, asking them to forward her mail. She says the dog’s paw prints on the walkway where there when she moved in and so was the box in the attic. In 2004 Alex Wyler, an architect moves in the lake house, finds Kate’s letter, but is puzzled as there are no paw prints and it looks like no one has lived in the house for years. In Chicago at Daly Plaza on Valentine’s Day Kate sees a man killed in an accident, even though she tries to save him. While restoring the house a dog shows up and makes the paw prints exactly where Kate said they would be and is adopted by Alex. Alex meets his brother, but is ignored by his father who is upset with him for not working as an architect, but a house builder instead. Alex goes to the address Kate left in her letter, but there’s just an apartment building under construction there.  She leaves him a letter telling him when an unexpected spring snowstorm will occur.  The two become convinced that they are living two years apart and can communicate through the mailbox. Alex directs Kate on a walking tour of Chicago’s architectural highlights. Alex takes a tree from the lake house and plants it in front of the unfinished apartment house. Directed by Kate, Alex goes to a train station where two years before (but the present for him) she had left a copy of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion.  He promises to return it to her someday. On July 10, 2006 [39:02 to 42:07] Kate writes a letter asking Alex to call her, but her former boyfriend Morgan does instead. Alex’s dog runs off and he meets Morgan, who invites him to Kate’s birthday party. Alex and Kate dance and even kiss, but he does not tell her about their (for her) future correspondence. Alex’s father has a heart attack and dies during surgery, but before the operation he and Alex are reconciled. Kate gives Alex a copy of a book printed about his father. Alex makes reservations at a restaurant two years in the future for him, but the next day for Kate. She goes, but Alex does not show up. Kate breaks it off with Alex and reconnects with Morgan and they get engaged. Alex puts a box in the attic and rents the lake house to Kate. Alex and his brother Henry open an architecture firm. Kate finds her copy of Persuasion which Alex had hidden in the uncompleted apartment house. On Valentine’s day 2008, Kate and Morgan go to  Henry Wyler’s Architecture firm. There she sees a drawing of the lake house and learns that Henry’s brother Alex was killed two years ago that day in a traffic accident in Daly Plaza. Realizing the man she saw killed was Alex she races back to the lake house and leaves him a letter begging him not to try and meet her that day. As she waits at the mailbox Alex shows up and they kiss.    
                       
An interesting, if confusing romantic film. If you just go with the story you’ll be all right. If you try to think about the chronology of the plot, you’ll just get a headache. So just relax and enjoy it.
                       
Date given in film at 39:19-22

Producer - Doug Davison and Roy Lee

Director - Alejandro Agresti

Screenplay - David Auburn

Released – June 16, 2006

Runtime – 1 hour 45 minutes

Starring –

Keanu Reeves as Alex Wyler
Sandra Bullock as Kate Forster
Christopher Plummer as Simon J. Wyler
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Henry Wyler
Shohreh Aghdashloo as Dr. Anna Klyczynski
Dylan Walsh as Morgan Price
Willeke van Ammelrooy as Mrs. Forster
Lynn Collins as Mona


Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.



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